GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 634881
Is there a flaw in gtk+ calls by transmission-gtk, or is it murrine or cairo (or gtk+)?
Last modified: 2013-10-15 06:41:24 UTC
In latest transmission-gtk, paused torrents are rendered "ghosted", in murrine themes such as Ambiance (the latest ubuntu default) and Radiance. The display of such torrents, albeit only in these themes, consumes tens of percents of available CPU, causing noticeable UI slowdown. The main bug for this is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/655024 .. which links to bug reports in pango, cairo, and murrine. We have exposed some slowness in cairo, but I wonder if a slow rendering in cairo should use so much CPU. The user is doing nothing, but CPU is still severely overworked. Is transmission-gtk or murrine, or some combination, perhaps causing continual "redraws", and if so, is this easily corrected?
Assuming it's an issue with continual redraws, the window manager compiz may be a necessary ingredient to reproduce this bug.
Downstream link shows is fixed with Transmission patch. Closing bug.